The majority of Box 68 is occupied by Bentham’s writings on his Penal Code. Aside from two folios from ‘A Comment on the Commentaries’ (fos. 1–2), and nine headed ‘Law Amendment or Penal Code’ (c. 1828), the remainder of the box is occupied by Penal Code material written between 1818–30 concerning types of offences and concerning property.

• PLEASE NOTE: Bentham's 'Comment on the Commentaries', part of which is included in folios 1–2 of Box 68, has been published in A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, eds. J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart, London, 1977.

Detailed contents of this box are as follows:

• Folios 1 to 2: [Comment on the Commentaries] Comm. Misc; [c. 1774]
• Folios 3 to 9: Penal Code - Political defamation; 1818
• Folios 10 to 18: Penal Code - appendix, sexual eccentricities; 1824-25
• Folios 19 to 78: Penal Code - beginning; 1818, 1820, 1826, 1827
• Folios 79 to 85: Pannomion or penal code - offences collectively [marginal outlines]; 1826, 1828, 1830
• Folios 86 to 102: Penal Code - offences affecting the body; 1826, 1829
• Folios 103 to 111: Law Amendment or Penal Code - Codification; 1828
• Folios 112 to 114: Penal Code - interception of property, offences; 1827
• Folios 115 to 381: Penal Code - general titles, offences; 1818, 1822, 1823, 1825-27

Folios from box 68 which have already been partially or fully transcribed are listed under the progress bar below.

Box 68 Progress: Transcription begun

Untranscribed: 27
In Progress: 31
Ready For Review: 0
Completed: 356
Total: 414

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